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Russian dissident, former world chess champion and human rights activist Garry Kasparov argues that the invasion of Ukra......more

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Little did newly-elected Russian President Vladimir Putin know that, as soon as he came to power, he would be sharing th......more

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The Armenian world was shattered by the 1915 genocide. Not only were thousands of lives lost but families were displaced......more

Beginning with the 1881 Itinerant Art Exhibition, this book examines the history of modern Russia through the paintings ......more

Charlotte Alston’s important new study explores the relationship between Russian anti-state activists and western public......more

Foreign Policy Best Book of 2023 Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2023 The "riveting" (The Economist), secret story of the h......more

Between 1970 and 1986, countries around the world expelled hundreds of Soviet officials and personnel for espionage or o......more

In April 1986 a series of explosions shook the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. Flames lit up the sky and radiation escaped to......more

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A New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia, 1700-1918 proposes a new language for studying and conceptualizing the space......more

This book draws on the latest scholarship and archival research to examine the story of the Soviet Union and race. It lo......more

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’We have two cuisines in France, that of the north and that of the south’, boldly stated the first cookbook directly con......more

Witnessing Stalin’s Justice brings together contemporary American reactions to the Moscow show trials and analyses them ......more

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The Civil War and early Soviet food policies left millions of children homeless and starving in Russia in the first half......more

During the first decade of the 20th century, France led the way in aircraft design and achievements. After the outbreak ......more

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With the Russian annexation of Crimea in March 2014 - 160 years after the Crimean War - the peninsula has come to the ge......more

With the Russian annexation of Crimea in March 2014 - 160 years after the Crimean War - the peninsula has come to the ge......more

A comprehensive history of masks in France from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. Masks can conceal, disguise, ......more

A political history exploring the concept of demos in the French government during the period of 1800 to 1850. In his pr......more

A political history exploring the concept of demos in the French government during the period of 1800 to 1850. In his pr......more

Much has been written to try to understand the ideological characteristics of the current Russian government, as well as......more

Much has been written to try to understand the ideological characteristics of the current Russian government, as well as......more

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Between the end of WWII and the end of the Cold War, the international roles of France and Great Britain changed dramati......more

If America’s attempt to push back communism in Vietnam is undoubtedly the most well-known of Asian wars, it was preceded......more

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This book offers a reassessment of radical writing in the late Enlightenment by examining the construction of a provocat......more

L’Écriture est la peinture de la voix honours and celebrates the inestimable contributions that Professor Nicholas Cronk......more

Should all mothers breast-feed their children? This question remains controversial in the twenty-first century. In an in......more

Putin’s war has meant the return of the Russian intelligentsia-a concept that was all but dead in the first decade of th......more

Putin’s war has meant the return of the Russian intelligentsia-a concept that was all but dead in the first decade of th......more

The paradoxes of nineteenth-century colonialism in the Middle East revealed through the accounts of three working class ......more

Matchmaking and the Marriage Market in Postrevolutionary France uncovers the unexplored history of matrimonial agents, t......more

Murder in a cathedral, horrific illnesses and deformities, narrow escapes from injury and death, a vengeful dragon, a wa......more

First performed the day after Marie-Antoinette’s beheading, Le Jugement dernier des rois stages the burlesque trial of t......more

After the 1881 declaration of press freedom, France enjoyed a golden age of print, arguably up until the 1950s. This boo......more

This timely text charts the metamorphosis of Russian media and culture in the 21st century. It considers how, when Vladi......more

This timely text charts the metamorphosis of Russian media and culture in the 21st century. It considers how, when Vladi......more

A landmark analysis of how a marginalized subculture used modern media to transform public attitudes toward sexual desir......more

A sweeping history of intimacy and family life in France during the age of revolution The French Revolution and Napoleon......more

Frommer’s books aren’t written by committee, by AI, or by travel writers who simply pop in briefly to a destination and ......more

The compelling story of the significant relationship between communism and modern architecture in postwar France The mas......more

The complete war memoirs of the resistance leader Charles de Gaulle, who led France out of its darkest hour during the N......more

Winner of the Davis Center Book Prize in Political and Social Studies Co-winner of the Charles Taylor Book Award How do ......more

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The French countryside is as beloved by the many millions of tourists who visit it each year as it is of French people t......more

This unique exploration of Russian prose fiction about the Soviet labour camp system since the Stalin era compares repre......more

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A vivid history of how Cold War politics helped solve one of the twentieth century’s biggest refugee crises When World W......more

Corruption on an immense scale and the unscrupulous use of law enforcement have left indelible marks on post-Soviet Russ......more

"Armchair historians in particular will appreciate McAuliffe’s readable yet detailed history supplemented with illustrat......more

A ground-breaking new study that transforms our understanding of one of the most famous battles of the Second World War,......more

The education and technological centre of Russia, Akademgorodok in Siberia is home to the state university, 35 research ......more

An exploration of the pivotal shift on the Eastern Front during World War II, highlighting how the Red Army’s mechanized......more

This monograph provides the first substantial analysis of the visual arts commissioned by Scots in France prior to Mary ......more

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How do the writings of Verlaine, Baudelaire, and Mallarmé speak to our time? Why should we continue to read these poets ......more

In 1991, the Cold War ended in a bloodless victory for NATO. After 70 years of a grueling, nuclear-tinged Cold War, comm......more

The first English-language biography of Henri Bergson, the French philosopher who defined individual creativity and tran......more

From the award-winning author of The Island of Extraordinary Captives, the riveting, untold true story of the botanists ......more

Desiring Whiteness uncovers the intertwined histories of commercial sex and racial politics in France and the French Emp......more

Victims of mass repression in Stalin’s Soviet Union were subject to physical and psychological torture by their interrog......more

A history of military-technological innovation in Russia. This book traces the dynamics of military-technological innova......more

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